{"id":545,"date":"2008-05-01T23:17:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2008-05-01T23:17:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T03:17:26","slug":"molehills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Molehills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but our front yard in Maine was full of molehills last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>We were in the Boston area for Passover (pictures? somewhere) the weekend before, and there was still a foot of snow on the ground in Maine the weekend before that. So we didn&#8217;t know what to expect last weekend. We were pleasantly surprised to see bare ground, but strange looking bare ground. The moles had been tunneling just at the soil &#8211; snow border. I guess it&#8217;s less work going through the snow, but the food is in the soil, so half and half is the ideal solution. At any rate, look at this!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/04\/molehills_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/04\/molehills_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/04\/molehills_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re thinking of buying some wind-powered mole repellent gizmos. They look like miniature versions of the windmills you see on the Great Plains, with some sort of rattle device underground that makes a racket the moles can&#8217;t stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but our front yard in Maine was full of molehills last weekend. We were in the Boston area for Passover (pictures? somewhere) the weekend before, and there was still a foot of snow on the ground in Maine the weekend before that. So we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Molehills&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}